The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-31
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| boom.
| BUFFALo's MALT BUSINESS is enormous. The
annual product of the malt manufacturers
there is 100000 bushels-an amount exceeding
| by nearly 900 coo bushels the combined product
| of any other two American cities.
REUBEN N. WEST, a negro barber who recently
died in Richmond, Va aged Sc years, was once
of the most prominent men of his race in the
| State chiefly owing to the remarkable fact that
| he had about $2J,0 goo invested iii the African
| slave trade.
A. T. SouLE,' of Rochester, N. Y, who built at
| his own expense canal nine miles long for
| irrigating purposes in Kansas at an expense of
/ 81 600, 900, has announced his intention of
extending it so that 600 900 acres of land viii
! always yield full crop.
A WREN built its nest in an old fruit can nailed
to the gate post of A. J. Diehl, of Normal, ILL.,
The nest was destroyed, but was renewed twelve
| times ON twelve successive days, having been
pulled to pieces each time as soon almost as
| built, The bird was then left in undisputed
| possession
| ENGIIsHMEN are advised by Consul Ricketts,
not to emigrate to Brazil. They may get land
| cheap, but will find that work under a tropical
| sun is dangerous. There is lack of communi-
| cation with the interior, and the natives are
| hostile to the English For these reasons there
| are few British settlers in Brazil.
| Two 'Brockton 0Tass.) men claim to have In
feHLSq u machine WIN WHICH Two men anu Il
| boy can last 200 pairs of shoes day, and do it
more cheaply than by the present process. The
machine will not strike, and if the two men and
boy can be depended upon, the last of the
! lasters' strikes seems to be near at hand
| THE only woman cab driver in England has
just died. Visitors to Epping Forest will recall,
as one of the peculiar institutions of that vicini-
| ty, the female Jehu, who for many years wore
| conspicuously the badge of a driver and held
N IDyl wit
who, no doubt, vociferously denounced at cab
stands and railway stations this demonstration
OF a woman S rights.
MARY MCLAueHLIN, who has been appointed
postmistress at Lake Forest H., is young Irish
seamstress who has been sewing among the
families there at 81 clay. This appointment
will give her 81 800 year, and she must have
been ast0nished when a telegram reached her
from Senator Farwell that her name had been
sent to the Senate. She was not candidate and
probable never dreamed of such thing as being
postmaster or holding any other office.
Nor LONG AGO, the Secretary and Treasurer of
one of the largest street car lines in Pittsburg
was taken ILL., and his daughter undertook to
manage his business She kept the books in
good shape, attended to the collection of money,
paid the employees, and bought feed and stock
for the company, She did so well that when
her father died, the company elected her to fill
tie position permanently we are not told
that she draws the same salary.
BIRTHDAY BOXES are among the new inven-
tons for raising money, and are used by some
Hudson River churches. These boxes are placed
in prominent places in churches and Sunday
school rooms and upon the birthday of any
member of the church or school that person
puts into the box as many pennies as he or she is
years DID, and continues this practice each year
The boxes are opened every six months, and in
this manner quite snug SUM is realized.
At the close of the recent session Of the Con-
necticut Legislature that body, as has been its
reprehensible custom, voted to the newspaper
reporters sums of money for Especial services"
William F. Clarke, of the New Haven Ne,os, re-
ceived $500 The proprietors of the Nelus dis
charged him upon his refusal to turn the money
into the State Treasury, and then sent their own
check for $500 to the State Treasurer This the
Treasurer has returned to the paper, saying he
has no authority to receive it, and that he can
not take it without special vote Of the Legisla-
tlIre.
"A STEAMER which arrived at Philadelphia from
Antwerp the other day had among the passen-
gers eight children, ranging from 2 to IA years
old, whose father had not been seen since he put
them ON board the vessel at Antwerp. Just be-
fore the ship left Antwerp the father made
some trihing excuse to get ashore for a few mo-
ments and did not return, and the children were
carried here unprovded for and without the ad-
dress OF any friends The eldest boy said that
his father treated them very kindly. and had
great deal of money about his person when
leaving the ship.
A SAN FRANCISCO DRUMMER visited one store
TO make SALE but was told that no dealings
could be had with him as long as he stopped at
a boycotted hotel Thereupon he went back to
the hotel, paid his bill and left. Subsequently
in another store, he was told that they could
not deal with him because he left the hotel; and
to square the matter he returned to the boy
cotted hosiery. He was a very perplexed
drummer indeed. A tailor's assistant was board
ing at a boycotted house The tailor was warned
that he ran the risk of boycotting if he per
mitted this and he thereupon caused the young
man to change his quarters. The boycotted
t hotel u man then got even by ccuntermanding
clothes, and inducing friend to countermand
another order.
A DAKorAN and Texan who met in Chicago
were disputing about the greatness of their re-
spective districts, and among other things
traded marvellous stories about the work of the
wind in each locality. How fast does Texas
norther blow" asked the Dakotan at last
measure it is lightning, When Texas
norther is coming they telegraph ahead, SO peo-
pie can get under ground, but when it gets
under good headway it will just about run a
fast's a Dakota blizzards" ''Oh, you can't
measure blizzard. There's nothing like it,
I've seen a blizzard skin telegraph message
right of the wires and carry It ON ahead l
never saw but one the speed of which could be
measured. There seemed to be something the
matter with that one. 1t went rather slow
only bout 100000 miles q second and we
couldn't tell what was the matter with it until
it went by, when we found it was dragging one
of those Internal Texas northers along behind"
THERE has been such a rush of American
ladies lately, oil painting to be presented to the
Queen says London Truth, that a most I'M
compromising circular has been issued from the
American Legation, in which Mr. Henry White |
announces that there can be presentations from |
the diplomatic circle only under special circum-
stances, D. e., when the lady is person of genu-
inc distinction. whose position in the United |
States justifes her attending the drawing room |
under the auspices Of her Minister It has be- |
come absolutely necessary TO take steps to re- |
strict the number of American 'entree' presen- |
tations, as it is not the custom for any of the |
foreign ministers to present officially unless |
under special circumstances, The feverish |
yeaTning to bend the knee at Buckingham |
palace which possesses SO many American |
ladies' crises from an extravaRant notion that |
attendance at drawing-room will inevitably |
produce an invitation to the jubilee entertain |
ments; but there are some Americans now |
Haunting about London who could assure their |
countrywomen that it is one thing to attend q |
drawins-room, but quite another to get an invi-
tation TO the palace
THE bonbridden Car Of Russia begliiles the |
interims of time while he is not lodging Nihilis-
tic missiles by playing on the French horn, with |
which instrument he is an adept, says Strakosch |
tO m ono oacaafo, ,yl,sI, H.